Earthquake Early Warning Workshop – Wednesday, February 27, 2013
University of Washington Tower, 4333 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105
22nd Floor – Regents Board Room
Morning
9:00 – 10:00 – Light Breakfast and Coffee
10:00 – 10:10 – Welcome
Lisa Graumlich, Dean of the College of the Environment
Cynthia Atherton, Program Director, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
10:10 – 12:00 – Review of Current Earthquake Early Warning Work (presentation and discussions)
Earthquake early warning technologies and experience (global overview)
Richard Allen, Director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Professor, Dept. Earth &
Planetary Science, UC, Berkeley
US (California so far) effort and structure
Doug Given, Project Chief, Southern California Earthquake Monitoring, USGS
Break
Pacific Northwest tectonic background
John Vidale, Director of the Pacific NW Seismic Network, Professor, School of Earth & Space
Science, UW
PNW status and plan
Paul Bodin, Research Associate Professor, School of Earth & Space Science, UW
Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 – Catered lunch and discussion in the Magnolia Room of the Tower
Afternoon
1:00 – 2:00 – Discussion Groups (covering the following topics)
1. Which groups are ready for warnings?
(a) Emergency managers, (b) companies, (c) the public, (d) news outlets
2. Actual product, levels of certainty and forewarning that are useful?
Product - magnitude, location, shaking intensity expected, time until shaking
Uncertainty - (a) whether event happened, (b) intensity accuracy, (c) likelihood of event to
entire coast.
3. What are the means of warning distribution?
(a) texts, (b) web page, (c) direct pushed signals, (d) TV, (e) loudspeakers, (f) cell phones, (g)
PAWS
4. What groundwork is necessary to improve penetration of alerts?
(a) Public education, (b) better warning standardization, (c) USGS workshops
5. Are there implementation issues between the PNW, California, and Canada?
6. Are there implementation issues with giving warnings just to limited groups in the beginning?
7. How can we define and document EEW benefits for sensible long-term planning?
Overarching question - Is the current plan to develop EEW and prototype it the right plan?
2:00 – 3:15 – Reports from the break-out groups and discussion – led by John Vidale
3:15 – 3:30 – Break
3:30 – 4:00 – Discussion of path forward – led by John Vidale
Workshop Reception
4:00 – 5:00 – Beer, wine and appetizers
Parking and Directions
Free parking is available in “W46” lot, in Garage A, using our digital pay stations. The lot is located
right off of 43rd street between 12th and 11th street. If you have any problems on that morning
please call Lauren Honaker at 206-696-3087. Please use the code“100199” for entrance.
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Park in a numbered visitor parking stall in the A Garage
Take note of the parking stall number
Go to the meter machine (1st or 3rd floors)
Enter Stall number
Choose Option – Pre-Arranged Parking
Enter “100199”
Take Receipt
Map to parking:
http://www.washington.edu/facilities/transportation/commuterservices/parking/lotmap
Map to UW Tower: http://uw.edu/maps/?uwtt
Wi-Fi Access:
UW NetID:
Password:
event0160
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